Group: alt.education
From: cary@afone.as.arizona.edu (Cary Kittrell)
Date: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: Government Intrusion on Religion (by way of aid)

Bob LeChevalier
>
> Wide Eyed in Wonder wrote:
> >On Aug 27, 8:00 pm, Bob LeChevalier wrote:
> >> Wide Eyed in Wonder wrote:
> >> If you mean that there is discrimination between the treatment of
> >> religion, and the treatment of non-religion, then indeed there is.
> >> BECAUSE THE CONSTITUTION REQUIRES SUCH DISCRIMINATION.
> >>
> >> >and B> aid the non-religious over the religious to
> >> >succeed...thus, helping destroy the religious.
> >>
> >> That would be an incredibly weak religion, to be destroyed merely
> >> because it wasn't favored by government.
> >>
> >> Think of the power of Judaism, which has been discriminated against by
> >> most every government that it existed under.
> >
> >So, the Bill of Rights were meant to give the government power over
> >rights...is that why they were demanded...to make sure the government
> >COULD step on rights?
>
> That does not follow from anything that I said.
>

Well, hey now, it's every bit as sequitury as his demand
that I say either that Darwin created evolution, or else
that it must have been discussed for "hundreds of years".

-- cary